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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please learn what an ad hominem attack really is, thanks.[/quote]

If you are referring to me, a PP who kept pointing out you (or someone) kept committing the fallacy instead of responding to the point. I completely do understand what it is.  It is when you attack the messenger instead of the message itself.

What mistaken definition do you hold of the term?

Ad Hominem
(Attacking the person): This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone's argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument.

https://www.txst.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/ad-hominem.html

Examples from this thread:

- "[i]a random internet commenter who doesn’t know anything about my religion"

- "This is not an ad hominom [sic] attack against you, it is more like a teacher letting you know you are not on track for the A paper because you are only using one source and not a great one at that." [/i]- This might be my favorite, because of the direct use of the term (mis-spelled but no points off there) while both committing one and denying it, but mostly because of the four uses of the word "you".

- [i]"The thing is that it’s really hard to argue with someone who knows very little about the subject they are talking about and is Hell-bent on defending their position and believing that everyone else is part of a conspiracy."

-"It’s because the person they are talking to doesn’t really have the scaffolding to receive any technical information and the big picture is easy to dismiss if you think everything is a conspiracy and have no respect for education or authority."

- "You are uneducated and not willing to learn, which makes you boring at best. "

- "I'm sorry that it's hard for you to process complexity and nuance."[/i]

That's just the last couple of pages.

I beleive that to be sufficient evidence.[/quote]
Thank you for bringing the receipts. While I continue to be baffled by the total lack of self-awareness that atheist PP has with regard to his own ignorance on a subject that he keeps digging further into, I'm enjoying the conversation [i]around [/i]him with other religious folks explaining how religion works.[/quote]

This post makes no sense and has no context.[/quote]

+1. Especially like that the pp thinks that religious people are "explaining how religion works"![/quote]

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